Orange County, FL Deputies Recover Stolen Toyota Corolla Thanks to LoJack
- August 14, 2012
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On June 28, 2012, the owner of a2010 Toyota Corolla contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to report that their vehicle was stolen from the driveway of the private residence in Orlando, Florida. The owner stated that one week earlier, her car keys had been stolen at her gym.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office verified the theft and entered the vehicle’s information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the Toyota.
A short while later, Deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s Auto Theft unit picked up the silent LoJack homing signals from the stolen Toyota on the Police Tracking Computers installed in their patrol vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computers, the deputies tracked the vehicle to the parking lot of a small business location on Pine Hills Road near Colonial Road in the Orlando area.
Upon locating the Toyota, the deputies observed that the driver’s door window was left open and that the passenger front tire was flat and the rim was damaged. The manager of the business stated that the Corolla was in the lot when he arrived for work at 9AM that morning. The Toyota was recovered, processed for evidence and then towed to an impound yard.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Toyota Corolla on December 2010 at Central Florida Toyota in Orlando, Florida.